Ben Bajarin: Google adopts his old idea of AI assistants as anticipation engines
BenBajarin · x · 2026-09-24
Analyst Ben Bajarin notes that Google is now talking up a concept he fleshed out years ago: an AI assistant's added value lies in being an anticipation engine—proactively predicting user needs—true for both enterprise and consumer AI.
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